THE LANGUAGES OF PAO.
New York: Avalon Books/Thomas Bouregy and Company, [1958]. Octavo, jacket illustration by Ric Binkley, cloth. First edition. "The first full-scale use in SF of linguistics as a "hard" science." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 3-186. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1164. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1135-39. Hewett and Mallett, The Work of Jack Vance, A8]. Some black stains to edges from old style asphaltic jacket proctector (which many Avalon books were in for libraries), a nearly fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with a mild fade to background ink of dust jacket and color fade to lettering, mild shelf wear to spine ends with a touch to corner tips. (9341). Item #9341
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